ALS, 1779 April 2, Roxborough, to unknown.

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ALS, 1779 April 2, Roxborough, to unknown.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13347530

Speaks disparagingly of the "Constitutionalists" and says that they will soon convince "...all Mankind that they have neither sense nor Virtue enough to govern a Hord of Tartars. And as to the Constitution itself 'tis so shattered and battered by its Friends as hardly to be known again by its Makers." The reference is presumably to the continuing Congressional arguments on the Articles of Confederation.

2 p. 33.5 x 21 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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